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GODDEN, WALTER GOFFART, LYNNE GRUNDY, CYRIL HART, JOYCE HILL, SIMON KEYNES, ANN KNOCK, BRUCE MITCHELL, JANET L. NELSON, BARBARA RAW, JANE ROBERTS, D.G. SCRAGG, ALFRED B. SMYTH, E.G. STANLEY, PAUL E. SZARMACH, PATRICK WORMALD
List of contents
A Celtic etymology for Old English "deor" ("brave"), Andrew Breeze; Aelfric's "Letters" and the "Excerptiones Ecgberhti", J.E. Cross and Andrew Hamer; Old English "orc" ("cup, goblet") - a Latin loan-word with attitude, Roberta Frank; Sodom and Gomorrah in prose works from Alfred's reign, Allen J. Frantzen; Waerferth and King Alfred - the fate of the Old English "Dialogues", M.R. Godden; the first venture into "medieval geography" - Lambarde's map of the Saxon Heptarchy (1568), Walter Goffart; "ece" ("eternal") in Aelfric, Lynne Grundy; the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle" at Ramsey, Cyril Hart; Aelfric's "Homily on the Holy Innocents" - the sources reviewed, Joyce Hill; Anglo-Saxon entries in the "Liber Vitae" of Brescia, Simon Keynes; analysis of a translator - the Old English "Wonders of the East", Ann Knock; the Sign 7 in the Annal for 871 in the Parker Chronicle MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 173, Bruce Mitchell; "...sicit olim gens Francorum...nunc gens Anglorum" - Fulk's letter to Alfred revisited, Janet L. Nelson; Alfredian piety - the "Book of Nunnaminster", Barbara Raw; "fela martyra" ("many martyrs") - a different view of Orisius's city, Jane Roberts; Wifcythe and the morality of the Cynewulf and Cyneheard episode in the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle", D.G. Scragg; the solar eclipse of Wednesday 29th October 878 - 9th-century historical records and the findings of modern astronomy, Alfred B. Smyth; on the laws of King Alfred - the end of the preface and the beginning of the laws, E.G. Stanley; Alfred's "Boethius" and the Four Cardinal Virtues, Paul E. Szarmach; the Lambarde problem - 80 years on, Patrick Wormald.
